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Nancy Goldstein

Nancy Goldstein's work has appeared in venues including the Guardian, The Nation, NPR, Politico, Raw Story, Salon, Slate, and the Washington Post, where she was an Editor's Pick and the winner of the blogging round during their Next Great Pundit Contest. You can follow her on Twitter at @nancygoldstein.

Recent Articles

Preserving the Triangle Factory Fire's Lessons, 100 Years Later

In this time of corporate-led anti-union and anti-regulation fervor, we need to hold firm when it comes to defending workers' rights.

Nancy GoldsteinMar 24, 2011
The burned-out remains of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York's Greenwich Village, 1911 (AP)

March 25 marks the 100th anniversary of the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that trapped and killed 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women, on the upper floors of a New York City sweatshop. It's a time to honor and mourn the Triangle's victims, commemorate the tragedy's importance as a turning point in the history of the American labor movement, and reaffirm the crucial role of unions and regulatory bodies in advancing worker rights.

Congress Backpedals on Global HIV/AIDS Prevention

Republican deficit hawks have proposed drastic cuts to global HIV/AIDS programs -- and it's women who will suffer the most.

Nancy GoldsteinMar 10, 2011
Senegalese students dance in front of a giant puppet of President Obama at a parade to draw attention to the continued need for HIV and AIDS funding. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

When it comes to women's health, a little political cowardice goes a long way. House Republicans, in their zeal to balance the budget in any way possible other than asking rich people and corporations to pay their fair share of taxes, have proposed putting the one-quarter of 1 percent of the U.S. budget for global health on the chopping block. The Democratic leadership won't oppose these cuts or call them what they are: crowd-pleasing maneuvers that won't dent the deficit. And ultimately, it's HIV-positive women and children who will pay a disproportionate share of the price.

Counting the Transgender Community

A new initiative provides real numbers, for the first time, detailing how transgender Americans are discriminated against -- and they're startling.

Nancy GoldsteinFeb 04, 2011
(Flickr/Fibonacci Blue's photostream)

Transgender people live with a bull's-eye on their back. Anyone who denies this fact -- so hard for some to swallow in the wake of recent victories on marriage equality and "don't ask, don't tell" for lesbian, gay, and bisexual people -- is due for a wake-up call. Today, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) released "Injustice at Every Turn," a report based on the results of what is by far the country's largest transgender discrimination survey to date -- with 6,450 participants to the next largest study's 700.

The DADT Awards.

Nancy GoldsteinDec 03, 2010

During two days of hearings that were sometimes so frustrating I began to refer to them as “don’t ask, don’t yell (at C-SPAN),” some players stood out for their clarity, integrity, leadership, and sheer toughness. For these bracing displays of intelligence and spine, I hereby grant the following awards:

Hypocrisy and Illusions That Just Won't Quit.

Nancy GoldsteinDec 03, 2010

The most important distinction made in this morning’s hearings by supporters of repealing "don't ask, don't tell" is about the difference between perception and experience, believing and knowing.

First, the gap between the perception of service members who don’t understand they’ve been serving alongside LGBT people all along, and those who do. A full 92 percent of the latter are just fine with that -- and that includes high percentages of OK-ness among active combat troops. Second, there’s the experience of the Netherlands, Britain, etc., all of whom have reported that there was plenty of fussing by straight troops before the open inclusion of LGBT service members, and virtually none afterward.

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